The way they describe it, it almost sounds like a little hardware firewall for you laptop... which is cool.
Probably won't stop you from stealing the laptop and ripping the hard drive, but if the hard drive is encrypted (like my work laptop) then you will have some major problems accessing meaningful data.
Fact is, security is a multi-layered process and it is never perfect. This item is just part of it.
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OK power laptop off, then steal. Remove HD from laptop, and connect to another computer. Copy off data.
How does this card protect your data again???
I'm not even gonna start on how ineffective this is going to be. It wont even stop n00b wannabe hackers like me.
The way they describe it, it almost sounds like a little hardware firewall for you laptop... which is cool.
Probably won't stop you from stealing the laptop and ripping the hard drive, but if the hard drive is encrypted (like my work laptop) then you will have some major problems accessing meaningful data.
Fact is, security is a multi-layered process and it is never perfect. This item is just part of it.